With New Outsourcing Deal, BlackBerry Cancels Two Phones

Dec 23, 2013 1:27 pm ET

By Will Connors

A small item from BlackBerry’s earnings-related filing Friday got lost in the news of its hardware partnership with Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group — sales of its new phones have been so bad that BlackBerry was forced to cancel the rollout of two not-yet-released phones.